| Location | Activity | Google Earth Content |
| 1.Grand Canyon (Arizona) | Which river carves this steep sided gorge? Draw how you think this happens. | Terrain tool, Wikipedia |
| 2.Mt. Everest (Nepal/Tibet) | Which mtn range? Heigth? | Wikipedia |
| 3.Sahara Desert | This desert gets its name from the Arabic word Sahra. See if you can find out what this word means. | Wikipedia |
| 4.Angel waterfall (Venezuela) | Write down how tall you predict 3,212 feet to be. About how many yardsticks would that be? | Panoramio |
| Details of image overlay / path / polygon: | path tool to show the path of our tour. |
Content: Standard 3 (Develop an understanding of environment) Objective 3 (Demonstrate how symbols and models are used to represent features of the environment. The technology objective we used in digital storytelling is also appropriate!
Pedagogy/Technology: The content for this lesson is for the younger grades. I was thinking first or second. Thus, I think it would be fun to read a book that talks about different features of the world that are natural. I have not yet looked up specifics though. This will make children more excited and curious as to what the next part of the lesson will be. After the book, we can talk together as a class about different features formed naturally. This will help children better understand their environment. We will then use Google Earth to look up some of the features from the book, and also use Google Earth to do the virtual tour of four natural features that I found. This will be good for children because they can actually go to features formed naturally. Hopefully they can get a good idea of these features and what they look like. They will also have a better understanding of where these features are located.
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